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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Patricia Forts

Healthcare, like many industries, has gone through a transformation over the years. An influx of new startups disrupting the status quo, the patient experience becoming critical to success, and changes in consumer demand have all influenced this change. With change comes a need for established players to think differently about how they future-proof their businesses,...

Concept Development: An Exercise to Make Idea Investment Decisions Easier

Recently, a client shared a story about presenting some very intriguing ideas from a crowdsourcing challenge to decision makers and being met with “Yes, great ideas, but we can’t decide which of the good ones to pick or what to invest without knowing a lot more.” In that organization, like many, moving fast and choosing...

Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Campbell Soup Company’s Jeff George

How does a 150 year old consumer packaged good company reinvent itself in an industry that’s seeing an influx of new disruptive startups emerging? We had the opportunity to chat with Jeff George, VP, Americas R&D at Campbell Soup Company, who leads the company’s innovation program. George, who will be speaking at Spigit’s upcoming Ignite...

IdeaPlace’s Year of Record Growth and Release of Industry–First Capabilities

Spigit’s full lifecycle idea management software takes a monumental step forward today capping off another year of record customer growth. We’re thrilled to announce the latest product release that boasts enhancements and industry-first capabilities that will enable Planview IdeaPlace clients to take their ideation programs to the next level. Here’s a closer look. Full lifecycle...

Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Herbalife CIO Chris Morris

Recently, we had an opportunity to catch up with Chris Morris, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Herbalife, who will be sharing his insights at Spigit’s Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd. With Ignite just months away, we wanted to get Morris’ views on the latest innovation trends that are on his...

Ideation Rate: Quantifying a Culture of Innovation

MIT’s Sloan Management Review recently published a story that focuses on the research Planview IdeaPlace conducted with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management around quantifying a culture of innovation. In other words, we set out to move beyond the why behind creating a culture of innovation and look at the how. In doing so, we...

4 Reasons Why Defining Goals is Critical to Successful Ideation Challenges

Defining goals is critical to running successful ideation challenges. This may seem like an obvious statement, but it’s not uncommon to skip or rush through this crucial step when creating challenges. I’ve been working with several ideation program managers recently to launch their first crowdsourcing challenge and noticed that many try to bypass the step...

Ignite 2018: Registration for the Premier Conference for Innovation Leaders is Open

We’re thrilled to share that Ignite 2018, Planview IdeaPlace’s annual conference for the brightest minds in innovation, will be returning to the historic Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco on May 1st and 2nd – register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing. So, what’s in it for you? Why should you attend Ignite 2018?...

How Enterprises Can Collaborate Effectively with Startups

How can we effectively collaborate with startups? That’s a question that routinely comes up at many of the conferences Planview IdeaPlace hosts and attends as well as in our day-to-day conversations with Fortune 500 companies. Why should enterprises collaborate with startups? There are several reasons, including: Access to startups working on newer technologies (i.e. blockchain)...